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Robert Edward Turner III (born November 19, 1938) is an American entrepreneur, television producer, media proprietor, and philanthropist.He founded the Cable News Network (CNN), the first 24-hour cable news channel.
On October 6, 1987, Ted Turner announced the launch of Turner Network Television (TNT)—his fifth basic cable network venture, following SuperStation TBS, CNN, Headline News (now HLN) and the short-lived Cable Music Channel—in a keynote address at the opening day of the Atlantic Cable Show in Atlantic City, New Jersey, stating that the ...
Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. [2] was an American television and media conglomerate founded by Ted Turner in 1965. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, it merged with Time Warner (later WarnerMedia) on October 10, 1996. As of April 2022, all of its assets are now owned by Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD).
As a production company, Turner Entertainment also created original in-house programming, such as documentaries about the films it owns, new animated material based on Tom & Jerry and other related cartoon properties, and once produced made-for-television films, miniseries, and theatrical films such as Gettysburg, Tom and Jerry: The Movie, Fallen, The Pagemaster and Cats Don't Dance under the ...
Turner Classic Movies debuted on April 14, 1994, at 6 p.m. Eastern Time, with Ted Turner launching the channel at a ceremony in New York City's Times Square district. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] The date and time were chosen to mark the exact centennial anniversary of the first commercial exhibition of a motion picture in the United States. [ 12 ]
The all-music video channel was created by Ted Turner and launched on October 26, 1984, providing the first national competition to MTV. Turner later stated that the channel existed at the behest of the cable industry as a defense mechanism against MTV's unsuccessful attempts to increase the fees that cable providers paid to carry the channel ...
In 1986, Ted Turner's cable-TV conglomerate acquired most of the pre-May 1986 MGM film and television library [1] In 1988, its cable channel Turner Network Television was launched and had gained an audience with its film library. [2]
Tush walked into the station carrying his reel-to-reel demo tape and asked if the television station needed any announcers. They did. [2] He was hired as a part-time booth announcer for $50 per week. [3] Station owner Ted Turner used satellite broadcasting to greatly enlarge